Would-be rapist takes a beating 1
Another teacher arrested at 'Horndog High' 2
Is it cruel to make a kitten goth? 3
By Denise Grollmus in Police bungling, assault, homicide
Thursday, Feb. 4 2010 @ 9:00AM
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​This week, we couldn't help but notice how officers around America were getting their excessive force on something fierce, from beating teenagers in Santa Fe to killing a man in Boston. For that reason, we bring you this very special "Police Brutality Edition" of the Top 5 Police Blunders of the Week...

Thursday, Feb. 4 2010 @ 6:00AM
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​Thursday morning's Breakfast Reading from around the Village Voice Empire: A suspect sketch is released in the case of a murdered model. The famed penis gluers of Wisconsin get a lenient sentence. And a Texas bad-ass gets what's coming to him...

By Pete Kotz in fraud, homicide
Wednesday, Feb. 3 2010 @ 11:13AM
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​Dorice "Dee Dee" Moore has been arrested in the case of missing Florida lottery winner Abraham Shakespeare, whose body was found buried under concrete at a home in Plant City, Florida. She'd been the primary suspect all along...

Tags: Florida
Tuesday, Feb. 2 2010 @ 1:48PM

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​John Caudle is just 14-years-old, a wee boy who looks like the ubiquitous kid next door. And like any kid, he didn't like doing his chores. But this little boy decided to take his rebellion to the Old Testament stage...


By Pete Kotz in Police bungling, bizarre, homicide
Tuesday, Feb. 2 2010 @ 6:03AM
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​Tuesday morning's Breakfast Reading from around the Village Voice Empire: A jealous man kills his girlfriend for violating a Wiccan blood oath. Denver cops doing a little prank phone calling of their own. And a woman is attacked by a pack of dogs in a San Francisco park...

By Pete Kotz in classroom creepiness, drugs, homicide
Monday, Feb. 1 2010 @ 11:18AM

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​Danish Minhas was the senior class president who was applying for an internship with the Houston Police Department. Nur Mohamed was Lee High School's resident dope dealer. They made an unlikely couple when Minhas approached him in Spanish class...

Tags: Texas
Monday, Feb. 1 2010 @ 9:00AM
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​In this week's edition of Fugitive Watch, we bring you the tale of Robert Besabe: A "man" who, in 1982, killed a mother and her unborn child before evading police for 27 years, even though he was arrested for yet another murder in 1996...

Monday, Feb. 1 2010 @ 8:00AM

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​Welcome to another all-new episode of Douchebags of the Week, fresh baked with wholesome D-list celebrities. This week's top prize goes to badgered husband Muzzammil Hassan, who calmed his wife with a hunter's knife. But first, please welcome a familiar face...

By Pete Kotz in Books-TV-Film, Sex crimes, homicide
Monday, Feb. 1 2010 @ 6:50AM
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​In today's Book Review we bring you Bill Guttentag's Boulevard, the tale of a teen who flees uncaring parents in Washington state for the deceptive lights of Hollywood, where she runs into homelessness, rape, and a murder...

By Pete Kotz in homicide, unsolved
Monday, Feb. 1 2010 @ 6:07AM
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​Reader Mandy responds to Morgan Dana Harrington: Missing Virginia Tech Student's Body Found of Farm. She believes Morgan hitched a ride with another student or a good old boy who couldn't resist a young woman in a mini-skirt...